British and Irish Religious Orders in Europe, 1560-1800

Edited by Cormac Begadon and James E Kelly

Demonstrates how, far from being peripheral, the stable communities of conventual religious in mainland Europe acted as important centres of religious and secular activity in the aftermath of the Protestant Reformation.

IntroductionCormac Begadon and James E. KellyPart 1: Creating and Maintaining Identities1. Cloistered yet Militant: Commitment to Englishness in Seventeenth-Century Convents in Exile on the ContinentLaurence Lux-Sterritt2. The Regular Clergy and the Episcopate in Ireland, 1600-1650Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin3. Recycling an Island's Past for a Global Catholicism: Irish Franciscans in the Seventeenth CenturyJohn McCaffertyPart 2: The Relationship between Home and Exile4. Surviving in Exile: Strategies and Supporters of the English Convents in Exile, c.1600-c.1800Caroline Bowden5. 'A mixt life'? English Benedictines and European Catholic Reform Movements: Monasticism and Apostolic MissionJames E. Kelly6. Cloistered Politics: English Benedictine Nuns and the Stuarts, 1600-1700Jaime GoodrichPart 3: Space and Place7. I am all good and fill all places': Mystical Space and the Affective Atmosphere in a Seventeenth-Century ConventJessica McCandless8. The Exiled English Religious Orders and their Continental Gardens from Exile to EmancipationGeoffrey Scott9. The Irish Regulars in Early-Modern Paris: a re-examinationLiam ChambersPart 4: Intellectual Movements10. A Scottish Enlightenment in GermanyThomas McInally11. The 'Fifth Vial': Charles Walmesley's Ultramontane ApocalypticismShaun Blanchard12. Meandering Towards an Inevitable Death? English Benedictine Monasteries and their Responses to Enlightenment and RevolutionCormac BegadonIndex